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Midnight Building

In Midnight Building you control a man who is running around in a dark labyrinth. You'll start at floor eight and work all the way down to floor one. At the beginning of each round the labyrinth floor is…

1 January 1983

Midnight Building is an arcade, released 1 January 1983 on MSX.

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What Midnight Building is

Midnight Building was released in 1983. It was published by ASCII Corporation. It is available on MSX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Midnight Building you control a man who is running around in a dark labyrinth. You'll start at floor eight and work all the way down to floor one. At the beginning of each round the labyrinth floor is shortly visible, giving you the opportunity to locate the keys and the vault in the labyrinth. After a few seconds the labyrinth turns black. Only your direct surroundings of the labyrinth lightened. Now it becomes your goal to collect all the keys, open the vault with the collected keys and then return to the middle of the labyrinth to enter the door and go to the next floor. There are at least three hostile green men running around in the labyrinth who are trying to catch you. You'll…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Midnight Building launched on 1 January 1983, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Evolution and Grand Prix.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Evolution, Grand Prix.

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When did Midnight Building come out?
Midnight Building was released on 1 January 1983 for MSX.

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